To digress a minute let me talk about the P53 gene and P53 protein this gene produces as both are important in cancer suppression and progression. The P53 gene is called the cancer suppressor gene. P53 is known for both slowing the cell replication cycle and destroying cells. By slowing Read more…
The blood storage for of vitamin D3 is activated by 1-alpha hydroxylase enzyme into the active form of vitamin D3 (1,25 dihydroxy vitamin D3). Once activated it must still be modified by proteins to once it interacts with the vitamin D receptor (VDR) to initiate activity of gene(s). Concerning the Read more…
It has been clear to me for some time that vitamin D3 was important in preventing and curing many types of cancer. The problem is I could not figure out how it was doing this. So despite wanting to blog about this since I did not understand exactly how vitamin Read more…
Despite this CYP24A1 gene defect on one of the two copies occurs about 1/100 live births having issue with both copies (copies of two both sides is 1:40,000 which is rare. It is wise to be careful.1 So, if you start taking higher doses of vitamin D3 and start having Read more…
For some reason I thought I had already done this blog post. It must have been that I wrote about it so many times that it seemed like I had already blogged on it. I had not. So here goes. The CYP24A1 gene is critical to the break down of Read more…